In an embarrassing and glaring error, the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh is shown as Chinese territory in one of the country maps in the new Class 10 geography textbook of the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

More than 17 lakh
students will study the updated syllabus from the coming academic year starting June.

School education minister Rajendra Darda has asked for a clarification from the state board and Balbharti, the state body that publishes textbooks.